The German ambassador says that the United Kingdom’s summit may put a summit to review the post -Britain’s departure from the European Union.

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The German Ambassador to the United Kingdom expressed his hope that the European Union summit will be just the beginning of the bounce of relations and could put a fertile ground for the future review of the Boris Johnson deal after Frucetite.

Miguel Berger said that although he relied a lot on the “British government’s ambition,” European Union It will be open to discuss options when the agreement of former Prime Minister Johnson for trade and cooperation comes for a five -year review in 2026.

The leaders will agree at the May 19 summit in London to the new European Union Defense and Security Agreement At the end of 2025, both sides hope, and both sides hope to negotiate at the end of 2025, which is a statement that sets a set of reforms, and both sides hope to negotiate at the end of 2025.

These areas include a deal to transport youth, energy cooperation, simplify border controls for food and mutual recognition of professional qualifications.

But Burger said that if the talks succeeded in May, they could pave the way in 2026 for a second wave of reforms when London and Brussels retreated the TCA operation, which entered into force in January 2021.

Burger told a session of evidence organized by the UK Trade and Business Committee in the United Kingdom last week that the summit would only be the “starting point” for negotiations.

“It is extremely important that the TCA review that comes next year is a politically linked process,” he said.

Some in Brussels see that TCA reviews a main technical exercise and believes that the deal is working well, but other diplomats believe that there is room to make it better for both sides.

The “red lines” of Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer – which excludes Britain’s return to the unified market, the customs union, or freedom of movement – is great obstacles. Burger said: “It is clear that we accept the red lines as defined.”

But he added: “In the end, for us, it is the issue of the level of the British government’s ambition. If the British government wants to move further, we are open to discuss this.

“Let’s start with what is on the table. These are very big points. I hope that once you go forward in these topics, we hope to create a dynamic for cooperation that may allow us to go beyond what is currently on the table.”

Throughout the European Union reset in the United States, Germany was a promoter enthusiastically for the deeper participation with the United Kingdom. Berlin’s appetite often exceeded these close relations between both British politicians and the European Union’s central union bureaucracy in Brussels.

In January 2024, Berlin presented a discussion paper to the European Commission, the executive arm of the mass, which called for improving the ability of both youth and professionals to work in the United Kingdom and the European Union, in a sign of its intentions to deepen relations with Britain.

In addition to the youth movement of children between the ages of 18 and 30, the newspaper, which was seen by the financial Times, said that if the upcoming discussion on the movement between the European Union and the United Kingdom said “focusing on broader”, it may include a set of rulings to help trade exchanges to business.

These reduced costs and papers for German companies are looking for the second employees and their families to work in the United Kingdom, and easier conditions for rotating workers in NGOs and spanning visas for professionals with wages and workers for their own account.

While, from a commerce Perspective, the current re -appointments remain tightly limited to the so -called veterinary agreement to remove the red and manufacturer -red border border strip and move to re -connect energy markets in the European Union and the United Kingdom, and trade groups want to see more ambition over time.

In December, the British Chambers of Commerce set a commercial statement calling for more flexibility for businessmen travelers, a value -added tax cooperation agreement, and re -joining Pan-Euro-Mediterranean And alignment with industrial regulations, among other ideas.

To date Brussels Refuse requests Through the UK for the deeper integration in the European Union’s unified market unless the UK accepts broader obligations, including paying the European Union budgets and accepting the elements of the European Union law.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves indicated at the weekend to her support for the youth transport deal, and the Sunday Times told “we want to empower young people from Europe and the United Kingdom to work and travel abroad.” But she warned that clear immigration should fall.

“The real stumbling block to the unified market is the movement of people,” said Anton Spicck, a co -fellow at the Thought Center at the European Reform Center.